Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the first shock of re-entering the status of Apprentice Seaman has passed, these men who have learned the value of ratings and rank from fleet duty are headed for the Ensign's full stripe. Most of them hope to return to the same type of service from which they were drawn...
...addition to libelling the College itself, the article takes it out on the patriotism of Harvard graduates, saying, that "the physical transformation would surprise, and perhaps shock, alumnl." NO doubt a man who hasn't been to Cambridge in a long time would be surprised to see all the men standing guard in the Yard and uniforms all over the pace, but they wouldn't be shocked. Most Harvard men are proud of what their Alma Mater is doing for the war effort. It would probably please them to see all the complimentary things that are said about just that...
...before, shock-haired Novelist Louis Bromneld, owner of a 1,100-acre Ohio farm, had become so incensed before the dairymen that he tore up his prepared speech, roared: "Since preparing that speech, I have read a vast amount of nonsense about the food crisis. I am tearing mad. . . . They haven't any real farm policy down there in Washington. One word can describe the one big mess they've made: 'Bedlam...
...equivalent of boys' gangs almost any where, had got out of hand: they had robbed and used their knives on some lone sailors on dark side streets. But probably the trouble could have been ended right there. One who thought so was Eduardo Quevedo, a plump, cigar-chewing, shock-headed amateur sociologist, president of the Coordinating Council for Latin Americans, member of the Citizens' Committee on Latin American youth...
...coldhearted skeptics who sought to debunk Sikaiana with dry research got the shock of their lives from the Navy Hydrographic Office's staid, unromantic Sailing Directions for the Pacific Islands: "The natives are Polynesians and have remarkably light colored skins. They are handsome and have a splendid physique...